The American and Dutch soccer teams were set to start their World Cup match at 10 a.m. Garrett Quinn got to the Banshee in Dorchester, which is World Cup central in Boston, around 7:30 a.m. to queue up for the bar's 8 a.m. opening
Garrett Quinn was among the horde watching the World Cup yesterday at the Banshee on Dorchester Avenue in Dorchester.
The Athletic reports John Henry's Fenway Sports Group has put its Liverpool soccer club up for sale. If Henry does sell the team, it would decrease the number of English footy teams owned by Boston area men by a full 50% (earlier this year, another area man lost his bid to buy a team across the pond).
H/t Gooner.
Not David Ortiz.
Aaron Boone even Facetimed David Ortiz on a screen in his office today to try to rev up his troops.
Updated with BPD info.
A melee that started on a Carter Playground tennis court near where two high-school football teams were finishing their game ended with cops from across the city flooding the area, Columbus Avenue shut down and one adult and six teenagers under arrest. Read more.
A Hampstead, NH man who bought an American flag autographed by the Goat Himself after the final Patriots game at the old Foxboro Stadium in 2001, is suing the company that runs the Patriots Hall of Fame at the Patriots Place, claiming that after he agreed to lend them the flag for display, they let it get exposed to light and air, ruining it and making it worthless as the investment he'd bought it for. Read more.
The Joy of Sox says farewell to Dennis Eckersley, retiring after today's final game of the Sox season.
Story updated to reflect statement from mayor's office that she did not outright ban artificial turf.
Mayor Wu says she hasn't banned the installation of artificial turf for new playing fields in Boston, just that she'd prefer it no longer be installed, which is how the city Parks and Recreation Department is going ahead with plans to stick with synthetic turf when it replaces the current aging artificial grass at Charlestown High School's football and softball fields. Read more.
Robert Orthman captured the security guy tackling a streaker on the infield at Fenway tonight: Read more.
A fed-up citizen files a 311 complaint about the city courts on South Street in Jamaica Plain: Read more.
Bob Osgood says farewell to Dennis Eckersley, retiring this fall as a Red Sox commentator.
Russell's family made the announcement today of the death of the Celtics star, the first Black coach of a professional North American team and a civil-right activist for whom Boston built a statue outside City Hall. Read more.
Seth Mnookin expresses his outrage about what happened at the Sox game this afternoon:
Hey, adult white male w/blue baseball cap & goatee in row 5 section 17 of Fenway at today’s Red Sox game: it’s an all-time dick move to take the foul ball that hit my wife in the face instead of letting my kid have it. (I’m not at the game.)
It's not just that the Blue Jays scored 28 runs at Fenway tonight (fans started chanting "Let's go Blue Jays!"), but the T reports an inbound Green Line trolley mistook itself for a Sox player and died at Fenway.
Organizers of the Columbia Threadneedle Investments Boston Triathlon today announced they've postponed the three-event competition until Aug. 20-21. Read more.
Jamaica Plain News reports on an effort to raise funds so that the Valeo Boston 2007 boys soccer team, with players from Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, and Dorchester, can play in a national tournament in Colorado in July.
Emulsion Mike rode home on the Red Line with some Celtics fans tonight.
At 10:38 p.m., Frank Solensky posted a photo of hundreds of people watching the Celtics play on a wicked big screen in Copley Square. Read more.
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